It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood...
TREE HUGGING DAY
(1) Activist Jerry Rubin hugs a tree a Palisades Park during Alliance for Survival Peace and Environmental Group's 'Tree-Hugging Day' on the Spring Equinox, Saturday, March 20, 2010. (2) Baywatch actress Alexandra Paul hugs a tree at Palisades Park. (3) Environmentalists give a group tree hug to the 'Children's Tree Of Life' at Palisades Park. (4) Environmentalists walk through Palisades Park during Alliance for Survival Peace and Environmental Group's "Tree Hugging March." (5) Joe Faris sings 'Trees' ( by Joyce Kilmer) under the historic Moreton Bay Fig Tree in the courtyard of the Fairmont Miramar Hotel during Alliance for Survival Peace and Environmental Group's 'Tree-Hugging Day' on the Spring Equinox, Saturday, March 20, 2010.
PINEY FRESH BRIGADE
(left to right) Chandler Hadraba, Lulie Newcomb and Mikey from the Piney Fresh Brigade walk along Palisades Park during Tree-Hugging Day and in celebration of the Spring Equinox on Saturday, March 20, 2010.
Santa Monica Airport ArtWalk
Santa Monica College ceramic sculpting professor, Franklyn Phillips, (left) and his student Tom Swanson work on a collaborative clay sculpture during the fourth annual Santa Monica Airport ArtWalk on Saturday, March 20, 2010. More than 60 local artists and performers had their private studios and works on view at the fourth annual Santa Monica Airport ArtWalk, including Santa Monica Art Studios, Santa Monica College Art Mentor Program and Ceramic Arts and the Ruskin Group Theatre. The airport arts community is a unique, cultural resource located in one of L.A. County’s oldest operating airfields. Painting, sculpture, ceramics, and mixed media were represented. Galleries participating in the program’s converted airplane hangars are ARENA 1 and the Sherry Frumkin Gallery. Throughout the day there was firing demonstrations of Raku Japanese pottery, highlights from the Ruskin Group Theatre’s popular monthly offering L.A. Café Plays, theater and art workshops for kids. The Santa Monica Airport Art Walk was presented by Santa Monica Cultural Affairs Division, Santa Monica Airport and Santa Monica College.
ASICS
An Asics advertisement banner is featured on the Pacific Park Wheel on Friday, March 19, 2010. ASICS, an acronym derived from the Latin phrase, Anima Sana In Corpore Sano - a sound mind in a sound body.
DANCE MANIA
PROOF
Directed by Dr. Adrianne Harrop
Cast:
Dione Elsey (Catherine)
Jason Millward (Robert)
Lizanne Rebello (Claire)
Daniel Ruiz (Hal)
March 19 @ 8:00 pm
March 20 @ 2:00 pm & 8:00 pm
March 21 @ 2:00 pm & 7:00 pm
NO LATE SEATING!
$10 General Admission (unreserved seating)
Plus $1 service charge per ticket
3.5% fee for credit card purchases
Events Ticketing (located in Theatre Arts box office):
10a-1p M-Th
Theatre Arts box office opens 45 mins before curtain.
www.smc.edu/theatre/ssprods.htm
SOBRIETY CHECK POINT
Officers from the Santa Monica Police Department were contacting drivers in the City of Santa Monica to confirm their sobriety and driver’s license status. This is the first of several checkpoints to be conducted over the next 12-month period.
The Santa Monica Police Department reminds drivers if you plan on drinking, have a designated driver or call a taxi cab to take you safely home.
Since 2005, the number of alcohol involved fatalities has been dropping, thanks to efforts like this. But law enforcement and the public must continue to work toward zero deaths.
“Law enforcement officers are doing more to remove drunk drivers from California’s streets and highways thanks to our DUI traffic safety funding,” said Christopher J. Murphy, Director of the California Office of Traffic Safety. “But everyone can help make their communities safer; if you see a drunk driver – call 9-1-1.”
HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY!
Santa Monica Councilmember Terry O'Day with his daughters Teagan, 5, and Taryn, 3, eat a traditional Irish breakfast at Finn McCool's during St. Patrick's Day March 17, 2010. Terry O’Day is a 12 year resident of Santa Monica. He served on the Planning Commission for 6 years until 2009, and was appointed to the Santa Monica City Council on February 23, 2010, replacing the late Mayor Ken Genser.